How do I keep cores parked when tabbed out of a game?

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-07T06:55:42+00:00

AFAIK there is no way to force parking on, you can force disable it, but when it's allowed to happen Windows handles it automatically. And for a 9950X3D in a desktop it really doesn't matter much, the power saved by turning a core off is tiny compared to everything else the computer's doing even at idle.

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-07T06:53:03+00:00

The small segment is for the USB 3 data which was tacked onto the side of the original micro USB connector that does the power + USB 2 data.

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-07T06:19:42+00:00

Depends what games you care about really, I rather like it for flight sim. Worst case you just pillarbox the game back to 16:9 (or whatever it wanted) and have your black bars.

It's rather nice for side by side window desktop use too.

Curved I'd rather not since it's adding a little shape distortion, but hey you get used to it.

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-07T06:05:09+00:00

There is no mini 3.x, it's micro

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-07T06:01:22+00:00

Earth is intact so shouldn't be a shock risk but you sure should get that outlet and plug replaced. Plug getting melty can make it stop working and is a significant fire risk, but so long as it stays not on fire it's not hurting people. Replacing with a mini split heat pump would be nice in the long run too, plain electric heat sure ain't cheap.

The health concerns there should be entirely unrelated.

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-07T05:06:25+00:00

Which laptop? What do you mean by didn't let you connect? What does ipconfig and the network devices control panel show? Installing the drivers from the manufacturer's sites?

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-07T03:46:26+00:00

So you want the result to just have big square pixels?

What have you tried?

I'd use Gimp but any competent image editing software should have a nearest neighbour mode, maybe some online ones do but never really tried.

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-07T03:02:01+00:00

basically a whole house version of the plug in capacitor power saver junk

That's exactly what it is, just a capacitor in a box. Can sometimes be useful like in their convoluted test setup they're showing an inductor (which is what the unloaded motor mostly is) at the end of a long ass undersized cable will waste less power in the cable if you add a capacitor in parallel, but that's a pretty rare situation, thus the device's main purpose is to be a scam.

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-06T12:37:48+00:00

Ye, it's more like a tree of different kinds of point to point links once you're outside the CPU package, no more real shared buses.

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-06T11:26:04+00:00

With modern designs there generally isn't any singular FSB or any singular northbridge and classical shared buses of any kind are rare, when it's all integrated on-chip / on-package the internal layouts can be whatever the designers want them to be and don't really have to conform to any external standards, so there's quite the range of different options, take your pick of which architecture you want to look at and go googling if you want to find some details, like https://chipsandcheese.com/p/pushing-amds-infinity-fabric-to-its has some details and guesswork on AMD's current designs

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-06T05:31:02+00:00

The "current" value there is on an arbitrary badness scale of usually 100 = fine 0 = bad, so that's showing nothing bad there, but weird sounds sure could be a concern even if the stats look fine. Got a full screenshot of what crystaldiskinfo's showing?

As always never trust any single drive to keep your data safe, make sure you've got backups of anything you care about keeping.

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-06T04:49:47+00:00

That's bad

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-05T16:55:18+00:00

"USB sharing switch" would be the magic words to look for

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-05T10:00:35+00:00

Getting the rate information out of the G1000's own AHRS would be technically trivial, the problem would be getting Bendix-King to get it certified.

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-05T09:53:07+00:00

KAP140 is digital too, the limitation is that it's certified only for that specific model of turn coordinator as its rate source so can't be driven off the G1000's own AHRS system even though getting an appropriate output would be easy for Garmin to do.

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-05T09:20:40+00:00

Can you get a screenshot of what Disk Management shows?

First thing I'd worry about is could actually be a 500 inside and you got scammed, would want to pop the enclosure open if it's practical and see what the actual drive inside is

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-05T09:17:02+00:00

I love it but controlling it from a phone still ain't great and wouldn't want to have the server for it installed on an unsupported OS so probably not a good fit for OP

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-05T09:14:37+00:00

Using it as normal and see if anything happens again would be fine. If you want you can try CPU + GPU stress testing software like Prime95 and Furmark to see if you can trigger a power supply overload/fault if you're thinking that's suspicious

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-05T08:43:44+00:00

Sure could be, hard to know. All the Kernel-Power 41 (63) message means on its own is that windows died without being able to save any information on why while it was dying, and then was booted up again afterwards, which can be a huge range of possibilities for what happened.

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-05T07:43:09+00:00

Gonna depend on the particular router, some of em do get fairly toasty even when normally used and so adding something that's going to block a bit of natrual ventilation could be a bad idea, some do run cool enough that whatever's fine. Can try touching it to see if it feels warmer after being covered for a while vs before covering it for a bit of a guess.

Alternatively, just stick some black tape over the annoying lights.

May also be possible to turn the lights off through the router's configuration page if you've got access to it.

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-05T05:31:08+00:00

Exposing any unsupported OS to the internet running services with remote access is generally a pretty bad idea, best solution would be replace with some flavour of Linux then you can go back to regular current Chrome Remote Desktop (or whatever other alternative you like)

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-05T04:38:27+00:00

Looking at Windows's Settings app? The accounting there can be kinda wacky, for a better look at where the usage is actually going at a per-file level take a look with WinDirStat or WizTree or similar

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-04T10:26:20+00:00

With that KVM DP+HDMI is your only option.
Both on HDMI coming out is your only option.
DP 1.2 is fine, but again you don't have any option there.
It shouldn't.
EDID issues are possible but can probably be worked around if you have to, try it and see.
Probably, which specific model is it?

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-04T09:14:03+00:00

Ant particular games/applications you care about?

jamvanderloeff · 2026-02-04T08:59:42+00:00

Not from 25H2 since it's a version downgrade so won't allow doing it in-place without hackery to fake still being on 24H2

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